c. Save your new webpage in the same folder as the rss2html.php script and your RSS feed file
d. Most servers will require you to save the new webpage with .shtml as the extension (instead of .htm or .html), so the server will know to look for SSI commands in the webpage.

Example 4: Using server side inclusions to insert multiple RSS feeds from other websites, into an existing webpage

b. Save your template into the same folder as the rss2html.php script.

4. Create a new webpage that you want your RSS feed displayed in.
a. In the new webpage, create a new table, and put one or more server side include commands in the table.
b. Example

Code:

<TABLE>
<!--#INCLUDE VIRTUAL="rss2html.php?TEMPLATE=(name the template you created in step 3)&XMLFILE=(URL for the first RSS feed file to display)&MAXITEMS=(number of items to display from this feed)" -->
<!--#INCLUDE VIRTUAL="rss2html.php?TEMPLATE=(name the template you created in step 3)&XMLFILE=(URL for the second RSS feed file to display)&MAXITEMS=(number of items to display from this feed)" -->
<!--#INCLUDE VIRTUAL="rss2html.php?TEMPLATE=(name the template you created in step 3)&XMLFILE=(URL for the third RSS feed file to display)&MAXITEMS=(number of items to display from this feed)" -->
</TABLE>

c. Save your new webpage in the same folder as the rss2html.php script and your template.
d. Most servers will require you to name the new webpage with .shtml as the extension (instead of .htm or .html), so the server will know to look for SSI commands in the webpage.

Is is ok to use php include given fopen is supported? Any idea then why I'd get a blank page? I tried pointing at other remote RSS feeds and other remote templates and simply calling rss2html from my server, but same result.

Have reverted to the sample template in the download zip file, which now includes links. Have set $useFopenURL = 1; in the php script. These are published on the web server, but I still get blank page on a direct URL hit, and obviously therefore no html where I try to insert the RSS feed.

Anything I can check / try?

thx...

Not sure, but I tried your URL using the rss2html.com 's public copy and it worked just fine.

Thanks for the assistance. I tried a couple of other similar php scripts for the same purpose and they all returned nothing as well. I tried CARP which indicated to me that fopen and fsockopen were not working correctly. I see on the GoDaddy hosting plans some differences in the php support on Windows and Linux. I also gave a couple of .asp solutions a whirl, but no joy. Rather than slog along, I've decided to move the hosting plan onto Linux, which I think has a better chance of success. That takes approx 72 hours - so enough time to eat lots of Xmas food and then come back to it :-)

A couple of things might be useful to add:
1. Something like CARP has to check PHP support on the target server to indicate if your php script will (or should work)?
2. A debug version of the script, with some additional echo statements and a $debug={0,1} variable to control operation. I wrote some diagnostics in to see where the script tanked, perhaps one to consider for tracing issues?

Anyway I give it a try in a day or 2 on Linux and fingers crossed :-)

You are not the first person to mention on this forum that they needed to switch from GoDaddy Windoze to Linux.

The newest versions of the script have an option "?buildURL" that helps to make sure the URLs that are passed to it are properly encoded. The is also useful for general debugging to make sure you are able to read the feed.

2. Is by modifying the call to rss2html.php in your .html page. This is probably the most flexable. But the server has to be configured to parse PHP in .html files. Most are, if not a single line can be added to the .htaccess file.